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POWERGRID InvIT Pre-IPO

POWERGRID Infrastructure Investment Trust (PGIT) aims to raise around US$1bn in its India IPO.

PGIT is an investment trust setup to own transmission assets of its sponsor Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL). PGCIL is a central public sector enterprise which has been listed since 2007.

PGIT will initially own five assets with a total network of 11 power transmission lines of approximately 3,698.59 ckm and three substations having 6,630 Megavolt amperes (MVA) of aggregate transformation capacity, as of Sep 2020, across five states in India. The total valuation of the assets was INR105bn (US$1.4bn) as of Sep 2020.

These assets were awarded to PGCIL on a build-own-operate-maintain (BOOM) basis. Therefore, the assets are operated under a long 35 years service agreement with largely pre-fixed revenue based on availability. In that sense, they will provide stable returns.

However, its revenue terms are structured in such a way that its yield will continue to decline, while its sponsor’s government ownership will mean that it's unlikely to diversify away from transmission assets with declining yield.
Underlying
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited

Power Grid Corp. of India is a power transmisson utilities company. Co. is engaged in the planning, coordination, supervision and control over inter-state transmission system and operation of national & regional power grids. Co.'s Power System Management business takes continuous action regarding operation and maintenance to seek to ensure compliance with prescribed standards as well as to achieve high availability of the system. In the telecom business, Co.'s brand name "POWERTEL" is the only utility in India having an overhead optic fiber network using optical ground wire on power transmission lines.

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Aequitas Research
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